969 On September 16, , on Yangde Avenue in Yangmingshan, Taipei, a convoy was roaring and roaring. One of the seven-seat Cadillac was particularly eye-catching. The seats were Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling .
Yangde Avenue was specially built for Chiang Kai-shek. There were not many cars on weekdays. In addition, Chiang Kai-shek traveled on that day, he also implemented certain current limits, so there were almost no vehicles along the way except Chiang Kai-shek's convoy.
However, when we arrived at Lingtou and Yongfu, we encountered a passenger bus parked by the road. Since the passenger bus blocked the view of Chiang Kai-shek's convoy's pilot vehicle, the convoy chose to bypass a big bend and continue moving forward.
Unexpectedly, suddenly, a fast military jeep jumped out of nowhere. The driver of the pilot car looked at the crashing jeep and braked directly. This emergency operation did not prevent the pilot car from colliding with the jeep. However, Chiang Kai-shek's special car driving later also rear-ended the pilot car because it was too late to brake...
This car accident did not directly take Chiang Kai-shek's life, but since then, Chiang Kai-shek's physical condition has fallen sharply. In his later years, he was suffering from illness, and once suffered from bleeding and hematuria . During his illness, he mentioned the car accident and even called: "Yongfu car accident, reduce my life span by 20 years."
What is even more confusing is that after Chiang Kai-shek's actual death, a voice appeared, claiming that Chiang Kai-shek's death may have nothing to do with Soong Mei-ling.
Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling
What truth is hidden in these things? What was Chiang Kai-shek's old age like? Is there really a necessary connection between Soong Mei-ling and Chiang Kai-shek's death?
thrilling car accident
"Winning without leaving Sichuan, defeat without leaving Bay." This sentence came true. In December 1949, Chiang Kai-shek, who had been acting against the enemy, reluctantly boarded the plane to Taiwan, and since then he retreated to Baodao and never stepped into the mainland.
defeated Chiang Kai-shek, who fled to Taiwan, was originally "ambition-full of" to actively prepare for a "counterattack on the mainland", but the fact is that the cause of New China is booming, while the Kuomintang's power is still shrinking.
Chiang Kai-shek, whose dreams were shattered again and again by facts, was both anxious and sad. The bad emotions that were difficult to resolve for a long time and the deterioration of physical functions caused by age, Chiang Kai-shek's physical condition naturally had various problems.
Cheng-shi
969, Chiang Kai-shek ushered in another hurdle in his life.
In his later years, Chiang Kai-shek had always lived in the Shilin official residence in Taipei. In the hot summer, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong Mei-ling would come to the Yangmingshan official residence at a higher altitude to stay temporarily, and the same was true this year. What’s different is that during the summer vacation in Yangmingshan this year, Chiang Kai-shek encountered an unusual car accident. The accident at that time almost killed Chiang Kai-shek.
It was the afternoon of September 16th. Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong Mei-ling took his Cadillac special car to the suburbs of Taipei for a ride. At about five o'clock, the two ended their ride and returned to Yangming Mountain.
In order to ensure Chiang Kai-shek's safety, Chiang Kai-shek's travel was protected by a convoy. On that day, there were 4 cars in the convoy that defended Chiang Kai-shek. At the front was a pilot car, responsible for discussing the road conditions and avoiding dangers; then there was Chiang Kai-shek's special car, which was even bulletproof; behind the two cars were fully armed guards.
Originally, the convoy was driving fast but steadily on Yangde Avenue, which was specially built for Chiang Kai-shek to return to his residence in Yangmingshan, while Chiang Kai-shek sat in the spacious back seat with his legs crossed his legs and leaned on his seat.
However, when passing a bend, the pilot vehicle suddenly found a highway bureau bus heading down the mountain not far ahead, which was parked on the side of the road waiting to get off passengers.
The passenger bus of this highway bureau stops near the curve, which just blocks the pilot driver's view.However, since Yangde Avenue was a road specially built by the Taiwan authorities for Chiang Kai-shek, and the relevant personnel had already restricted the flow during Chiang Kai-shek's trip, the pilot vehicle did not stop, but chose to take a larger bend and continue driving forward.
As a result, on the curve, a military jeep suddenly emerged from behind the road passenger bus , which is the blind spot of the pilot vehicle's sight.
Seeing that this military jeep was about to crash into the pilot vehicle, the driver of the pilot vehicle made a quick decision and stepped on the brakes. The two cars passed by dangerously. But before the driver of the pilot car could relieve his breath and heard another "bang" sound, and the car was moved forward for a long time by the huge impact force.
It turned out that after the pilot vehicle was emergency braked, Chiang Kai-shek's "Presidential Special Car" behind him had no time to react, and even panicked and took the accelerator as a brake and stepped on it, directly chasing the rear of the pilot vehicle. Fortunately, the guard vehicle that followed the special car was braked in time so that it would not cause continuous impact. Otherwise, a situation of "front-back and back attack" would cause Chiang Kai-shek to die on the spot.
However, the huge impact caused by the collision of the two cars still caused Chiang Kai-shek and his wife to suffer quite serious damage. At that time, neither Chiang Kai-shek nor his wife wore seat belts, and what's worse was that in order for Chiang Kai-shek to have enough space in the car to retract his legs freely, the extra seats behind were removed, and this huge space greatly increased the degree of impact.
The moment the two cars collided, the crutch that Chiang Kai-shek was leaning on was folded in half, and his whole body rushed straight towards the baffle behind the driver's seat. Under the severe impact, Chiang Kai-shek's denture flew out directly, and his mouth, chest, and lower body were damaged to a certain extent due to the severe impact. Chiang Kai-shek, who was bleeding from the corner of his mouth, felt dizzy at the time, and he didn't know where he was.
When Chiang Kai-shek recovered, he could only hear Soong Mei-ling screaming on the side. Soong Mei-ling suffered a severe impact on her neck, and severe trauma occurred on her knees, and she even fainted for a while.
After the accident, the guards quickly got out of the car and saw two big holes caused by the impact of the rear of the pilot vehicle and the front of the vehicle. They were shocked. Seeing the loss of manners due to the injury, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife were even more frightened. They took care of the vehicle that fled and immediately sent Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling to the hospital as quickly as possible.
After coming to the hospital, Soong Mei-ling, who woke up from a coma, never stopped crying and crying. The medical staff in the emergency room had to circle around her, and then had a comprehensive physical examination for her. Chiang Kai-shek only had a slight laceration on his lips, and it seemed that the injury was not serious, but in fact, Chiang Kai-shek was the one who was the worst injured.
Of course, the situation was reported to Chiang Kai-shek's eldest son Chiang Ching-kuo as soon as possible, and some guards were sent to find the vehicle that caused the accident.
Jiang Ching-kuo
Jiang Ching-kuo was having a meeting at the time. When he learned that Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling were in a car accident, he was in a daze. Suspicion, fear, sadness, anger, and anger emerged in his heart one after another. However, what he was most concerned about at that time was the injuries of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling. After all, they were already 83 and 73 years old respectively, and he was really worried that they would not survive this serious car accident.
After Chiang Ching-kuo came to the hospital in a hurry, the doctor had already conducted basic examinations for Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling (mainly Soong Mei-ling). The doctor's diagnosis results at that time only said that the two had different degrees of trauma in different parts, but there were no fatal injuries. However, it is still recommended to be hospitalized for two weeks.
Chiang Ching-kuo breathed a little relief after hearing that his life was not hindered. However, as Chiang Kai-shek's son and the supreme leader of the intelligence management personnel, he would of course thoroughly investigate the flying car accident, and he had enough reason to suspect that this was a car accident against his father Chiang Kai-shek.
After all, it is too incredible that a simple traffic accident happened to Chiang Kai-shek. The guards responsible for protecting Chiang Kai-shek admitted that assassination and other situations are not uncommon, but this is the first time such a car accident.
In addition, Chiang Kai-shek's daily routine is very regular, and this pattern is very likely to become a breakthrough point for some people to plot against their misconduct. The accident occurred at dusk. Even if there is no passenger bus blocking the view, the driver's vision will be affected due to natural light. It is difficult not to suspect that this time period was specially planned by someone.
Jiang Jingguo found Kong Lingsheng, who was responsible for escorting Chiang Kai-shek, and Kong Lingsheng naturally understood Chiang Ching-kuo's concerns, so he told Chiang Ching-kuo carefully about the accident.
Kong Lingsheng
"Jeep?" After hearing this, Jiang Jingguo quickly grasped the point, "What kind of jeep? Have you recorded the license plate number?"
Kong Lingsheng seemed a little cramped. The situation was urgent at the time, and he had no time to pay attention to the jeep that fled wildly. Not to mention the license plate number, he had no impression of many details of this jeep. He had to say helplessly: "No, the situation was urgent, I didn't notice it."
asked the others again, and they shook their heads one after another, saying that they didn't remember it.
Looking at Jiang Jingguo's anxious look, Kong Lingsheng hurriedly said: "I don't remember the license plate number, but one thing is certain, it is a military jeep."
Hearing this news, Jiang Jingguo's eyes lit up, and he even more suspected that this was a premeditated murder case. So he immediately ordered the blockade of Yangming Mountain and investigated all military jeeps one by one.
That night, military and police from all over Taipei City dispatched urgently to conduct a strict inspection of the passing military vehicles , and then surveyed all military jeeps that went out that day one by one. Soon, the vehicle and the perpetrator were found.
The vehicle that caused the accident was the vehicle of an army division commander. After attending the military meeting chaired by Chiang Kai-shek that day, he was anxious to go home and reunite with his family, so he urged the driver to speed up his driving speed. Unexpectedly, he bumped into Chiang Kai-shek's vehicle head-on at the turn.
When the accident happened, the division commander judged through the convoy that the person sitting in the car would definitely not be an ordinary person, so he did not dare to stop and chose to escape.
Jiang Jingguo did not expect that this was really just a traffic accident. The so-called "murderer" was actually the commander who went to Yangmingshan for a meeting. However, the division commander was eventually punished seriously.
Because when he learned that Chiang Ching-kuo was investigating the accident, he did not choose to surrender immediately, but colluded with the driver and drove the jeep to the countryside to "avoid the limelight". In the end, under a strict search, the division commander and his driver were arrested, and the vehicle involved in the accident was confiscated.
Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo
It is related to Chiang Kai-shek's life. The Kuomintang naturally would not let the perpetrator go easily. The Kuomintang's Ministry of National Defense first removed the position of the division commander and revoked his military rank, and then sent him to the Military Court for trial. After a trial, the judge finally announced the death sentence of the division commander on the charge of "not reporting the information and hurting the supreme leader", and also sentenced his driver to a heavy sentence.
As for the driver of Chiang Kai-shek's special car who mistakenly used the accelerator as a brake, he thought that he had never made any major mistakes in his ten years as Chiang Kai-shek's guard and was not held accountable.
In fact, in Taiwan at that time, it was common for military vehicles to hit or even hit-and-run, but the conflicts between the common people were usually caused by the common people, so it ended up in the end. This time I met Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek seemed to have only suffered a little minor injury at the time, but since the car accident, Chiang Kai-shek often felt stuffy and painful for no reason. It was not until two months later that he went to the hospital for a routine examination again, and the doctor discovered the serious damage caused to Chiang Kai-shek's body by the accident.
Doctor found that there were noises in Chiang Kai-shek's major artery area of the heart. This is because Chiang Kai-shek's aortic valve was severely damaged due to the car accident.
After this, Chiang Kai-shek's heart disease often recurred. Because his heart became swollen, his mental state gradually became worse than before, and he was extremely prone to panic. Later, Chiang Kai-shek even said to Yan Jiagan who came to visit him, "The car accident in Yongfu will reduce my lifespan by at least 20 years."
Unspeakable injuries
After experiencing the car accident, Chiang Kai-shek's body took a sharp turn and he almost never left him in pain. After entering the 1970s, Chiang Kai-shek's physical function had dropped to the point where he could not go to the toilet on his own occasionally. He needed to lubricate the intestines with glycerol balls to be able to be properly relieved. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek's personal adjutant was responsible for this work.
In November 1971, Chiang Kai-shek, who was on vacation at Chengqing Lake Villa in Kaohsiung City, "worked hard" in the toilet again, but after half a day, he failed and became even more uncomfortable, so he had to call his adjutant to lubricate his intestines with glycerol balls.
However, the adjutant was not a professional person after all. After some operation, he directly stuffed two glycerol balls into the muscle next to Chiang Kai-shek's anus. This time, Chiang Kai-shek was so painful that he cursed, and his anus was also ruptured due to the rupture of his muscles. The medical officer near
rushed over and saw that the muscles next to the anus had become ulcerated due to improper operation of the adjutant when he stuffed the glycerol ball. Judging from the situation at that time, Chiang Kai-shek was even in danger of his life.
Chiang Kai-shek's secretary quickly called Anorectal department well-known doctor Du Shengkai came to treat him. Du Shengkai went there overnight. After cleaning Chiang Kai-shek's anus early the next morning, he finally stopped the "willful flow" blood. However, Du Shengkai also told Chiang Kai-shek that since the anorectal muscles are not easy to control, the wound is difficult to heal, and it will take as soon as possible to take a month.
Chiang Kai-shek lay on the bed, cursed in anger, and yelled angrily that he wanted to pull the unlucky adjutant out for military law to deal with it. He took the adjutant to Pingtung Air Force Base, and then sent it to Taipei on a special plane.
However, this adjutant ran a communication company back then and had a very good income. In addition, he usually does public relations for the leaders of Shilin Official Residence , and many people owe favors to him, so after this incident, many people came to plead for him. Even the chief guard Kong Lingsheng came to Chiang Kai-shek for pleading for him.
But Chiang Kai-shek was not going to let the adjutant go. He lay there and gritted his teeth and asked Kong Lingsheng: "How do you think that waste should be disposed of?"
Kong Lingsheng knew that Chiang Kai-shek would not let the adjutant go no matter what, so he calmly analyzed to Chiang Kai-shek and told him that this matter was not suitable for publicity. If it was exposed, it would only damage Chiang Kai-shek's image.
This time, it really hit Chiang Kai-shek's concerns. Although Chiang Kai-shek felt that it would be difficult to relieve his hatred if he did not send this adjutant to deal with military law, he also worried that if he was dealt with military law, anorectal bleeding and injury would inevitably be revealed, and his image would be damaged.
After some calm thinking, Chiang Kai-shek finally decided to put the adjutant in a confinement room in Shilin’s official residence, serving his own family law.
Shilin Official Residence
So, from then on, the adjutant "disappeared". All he could contact every day was the soldiers who delivered food to him. However, after a while, the official residence staff began to open the back door for him privately to facilitate his convenience, and the adjutant did not suffer much. However, it was not until Chiang Kai-shek's death five years later that this unlucky adjutant was able to truly see the light of day again. During
, Jiang Weiguo asked Soong Mei-ling for love for this adjutant, but Soong Mei-ling directly scolded Jiang Weiguo and told him not to care. Not only that, every time Soong Mei-ling saw this adjutant, she would always point at his nose and curse: "Mr.'s body was dragged down by your useless one!"
Soong Mei-ling gave a "death talisman"
After the car accident, Chiang Kai-shek's body was no longer as good as before. That anal injury was undoubtedly aggravated by Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek's body has become increasingly weak since then.
972, Chiang Kai-shek was already 85 years old. In this year, what he endured was not only many physical illnesses, but the drastic changes in the international situation made him exhausted.
This year, Sino-US relations have normalized, and then Sino-Japanese relations have also reversed. Taiwan faces the situation of breaking diplomatic relations with more than 60 countries...
So, Chiang Kai-shek lived a very difficult life this year. Faced with an irreversible situation, Chiang Kai-shek was full of despair, but he was always powerless. Not only that, his prestige on Taiwan Island also declined uncontrollably due to the death of his confidant general and his gradually weak body.
The body is getting worse and worse, and the "internal and external difficulties" situation made him exhausted, and his irritability aggravated the development of the condition. The development of the condition once again affected Chiang Kai-shek's mentality. Under this vicious cycle, Chiang Kai-shek's body quickly became difficult to support and even began to faint.
In this case, he had to start considering the issue of transfer of power. However, on transfer of power, Chiang Kai-shek had a disagreement with his wife Soong Mei-ling. Chiang never expected that the person next to him would become his last "big trouble".
Chiang Kai-shek specially appointed Chiang Ching-kuo as the president of the Executive Yuan at that time. This was an important position with great real power in the Chiang pseudo-government. Chiang Kai-shek personally recommended Chiang Ching-kuo to this position, in order to make him his successor in the future.
Just when everyone thought they did not dare to participate in the election for this position, Soong Mei-ling insisted on letting her nephew Kong Lingkan take this position. This caused a considerable debate within the Kuomintang, and Chiang Ching-kuo, Soong Mei-ling and the forces behind both sides launched an open confrontation for this.
In the end, although Chiang Kai-shek gave Chiang Ching-kuo to the position with his power, this also made the conflict between Chiang Ching-kuo and Soong Mei-ling increasingly sharp. Chiang Kai-shek was in a dilemma when he was stuck in the middle and worked hard for the two of them.
Not only that, Soong Mei-ling also often asked Chiang Kai-shek to participate in some less important activities while he was sick. For example, in January 1973, Chiang Kai-shek had just woken up from a coma, but Soong Mei-ling insisted on letting Chiang Kai-shek appear publicly despite the doctor's obstruction to break all kinds of rumors. Shortly afterwards, Chiang Kai-shek was allowed to meet with members of the Kuomintang presidium, and even fixed Chiang Kai-shek's uncontrolled arms on the sofa with tape during this period...
For Chiang Kai-shek, who was seriously ill, every time he participated in an event, it seemed like he was overcoming a disaster.
In November 1974, Chiang Kai-shek caught a cold, but he did not expect it to cause pneumonia and caused severe hydrops in the lungs and had to be hospitalized for treatment. Considering that Chiang Kai-shek is almost 90 years old, the medical team recommends conservative treatment.
But at this time, Soong Mei-ling heard her niece Kong Lingwei say that there is a "Western Hua Tuo" in the United States who can extract water from Chiang Kai-shek's lungs and allow Chiang Kai-shek's body to recover quickly. Soong Mei-ling is a very "supercredible" person and insists that "the moon in the United States is rounder than China", so Soong Mei-ling immediately decided to take a chance.
It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time Soong Mei-ling has been superstitious about American doctors. In the early 1960s, Soong Mei-ling hired a doctor from the United States to treat Chiang Kai-shek's prostate. I don't know if the doctor's medical skills are not good or Chiang Kai-shek's luck is too bad. In short, that operation not only made Chiang a lot of trouble, but it has not cured the prostate for him.
This time, Soong Mei-ling still insisted on letting American doctors treat Chiang Kai-shek. In March 1975, a famous American doctor was invited to Taiwan to treat Chiang Kai-shek. On the day of the operation, Chiang Kai-shek did not perform anesthesia. The foreign doctor held a 50-ml long syringe and stabbed Chiang Kai-shek's internal organs from his back, and then used the syringe to extract the pus and blood fluid from Chiang Kai-shek's body.
On the night of the operation, Chiang Kai-shek had a high fever. The foreign doctor had already returned to his country. Soong Mei-ling realized that she had made a big mistake, but she did not intend to admit it.
On April 5, Chiang Kai-shek finally passed away at the age of 89.
I have to say that Chiang Kai-shek's later years were extremely desolate. It is not difficult to find that what led to his death was unexpected events. The accidental car accident laid the root of the disease. The adjutant's mistake was severely damaged, and he was eventually "pushed" to death by the person next to him. Can this be said to be the retribution of rebellion?
