Corruption is a great enemy of an organization, and it is even more terrifying than the outside enemy, because fortresses are most easily compromised from the inside.
The Kuomintang back then was almost synonymous with corruption.
In November 1928, a foreigner with a keen observation, George Sokelsky pointed out: "The poor officials who didn't even have a small amount of money before the revolution soon became rich. They built beautiful houses in the capital city, and it was common to pick up their children to school in a car. Many bureaucrats with good life thought Nanjing's entertainment life was dead and went to Shanghai to enjoy a comfortable life. They built houses in Shanghai's concessions and stayed there for a long time - the 'weekend' often lasted from Friday to next Tuesday."
George Sokelsky also said that "luxury and luxury" have become a unique lifestyle for Kuomintang officials.
By 1930, corruption among officials at all levels of the Kuomintang government and the military system was already very common. In this year, " Ta Kung Pao " published an article that sharply criticized the National Government, believing that its top priority is not to suppress the Communist Party, but to punish 10,000 corrupt civil and military officials across the country. It can be seen that corruption in the Kuomintang regime during this period has become a major cancer on its body.
"Diary of Tang Zong" written by Tang Zong , who was once the acting director of Military Bureau, records that in 1932, the county magistrate of Anyang County, Henan Province was reported to the public for fraud. Henan Provincial Government Chairman Liu Zhi interrogated him and accused him of corruption and should be punished. The county magistrate replied: "The county magistrate is bought by money. If he doesn't make money, wouldn't he lose money?" He took out the receipt of the provincial government secretary-general Zhang Tingxiu and submitted it. Liu Zhi asked Zhang Tingxiu, "Is there any such thing?" Zhang Tingxiu said, "The concubine has the account to check." When Liu Zhi learned that it was his concubine who had collected the money, he left the matter in vain. There were too many such incidents at that time, and there were countless.
1934, when Fan Wenlan was the dean of the Peking Women's Arts and Sciences College, he was arrested by the 3rd Kuomintang Gendarmerie Regiment and taken to Nanjing for spreading some progressive remarks.
Xu Songming, president of National Peking University, pleaded with Fan Wenlan to the Nanjing Kuomintang government, saying that Fan Wenlan lives frugality and does not even take rickshaw . He often walks to the school to work, and donates part of his monthly salary to the library of the Peking Women's Arts and Sciences College to buy books.
Who knew that , then the , the minister of the Organization Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee, said after hearing this, does not this just prove that Fan Wenlan is a member of the Communist Party? If you are not the Communist Party, how could you be such a fool?
How did the Kuomintang identify "Communist elements" back then? It's funny to say, but the basis is very simple: it's just that it's not corruption.
The corruption in the Kuomintang army is even more shocking. Li Zongren once recalled: "When the army needs to replenish weapons and ammunition, it must bribe superior officials and military stations to get supplementary. This is especially true for miscellaneous troops. If there is no bribery, there will be no supplementary at all. Even if Chiang Kai-shek approves a batch of military ammunition, military station warehouse officials will extort bribes. Without bribery, military stations will make excuses for inventory. Therefore, some military commanders try every means to bribe the military station and even attendants. Therefore, some military commanders try every means to bribe the military station and even attendants. Office officials were able to obtain weapons and ammunition and preserve their strength. For example, Wang Zhiqushi, the newly-edition of the 5th War Zone, was allowed to obtain 1,000 new guns, and sold 200 of them, and bribed the warehouse officials of the station with the proceeds. Wang Zanxu, commander-in-chief of the 29th Army, had Chiang Kai-shek personally approved a hand to receive weapons, but he could not get any bribes without bribery. "
Kuoist Party's powerful and powerful hands were so great that it is hard for people today to imagine. Soong Mei-ling has no children, and treats younger generations such as elder sister Soong Ailing and her elder brother-in-law Kong Xiangxi’s son Kong Lingkan , daughter Kong Lingwei , etc. as their own. In 1935, Kong Lingwei, the second lady of the Kong family, was stopped by the traffic police while driving in the streets of Nanjing. Kong Lingwei was furious and took out his pistol and killed the traffic policeman in the street.
With the support of my aunt Soong Mei-ling, Kong Lingwei had nothing to do and didn't sit in prison for a whole day.At that time, the citizens of Nanjing were moved by the power of the Song and Kong families. When they teased each other, they would say, "Don't be crazy, otherwise they would encounter Miss Kong Er if they asked you to go out!"
Before the Japanese army attacked Hong Kong in 1941, Chiang Kai-shek sent several special planes to take back the National Government trapped in Hong Kong to Chongqing. Unexpectedly, the last special plane landed. Those who walked out of the cabin were Song Ailing, Kong Lingwei, the Kong family servant carrying large and small bags of luggage, and two big wolf dogs...
The important personnel who should have retreated randomly may not receive the withdrawal message at all, or received the message but were banned from boarding the plane by Kong Lingwei. The former warlord and the then Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of the National Government, Chen Jitang, was forced to give up his seat to the dog with a gun and forced him to get off the plane.
Song Mei-ling not only indulged Kong Lingwei in trampling on the law and doing whatever he wanted, but also supported Kong Lingkan to hoard and loot the people. In 1948, Jiang Jingguo Shanghai was hit by the tiger, and hit Kong Lingkan, the boss of the Yangtze Company. Soong Mei-ling came forward again. Kong Lingkan was unscathed, and Chiang Ching-kuo was scolded by his father Chiang Kai-shek. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War , the acceptance of various places by the Kuomintang government officials became the "robbery" of corrupt officials. Gold, house, money, cars, women (wives, concubines and daughters of traitors) are the targets of "receiving officials" to seize the robbery, and are nicknamed "five sons passed the imperial examination."
"I miss the central government, hope for the central government, and the central government will suffer even more when it comes." This folk song says that this kind of reception has made the Kuomintang government more corrupt, and has planted a time bomb that exploded sooner or later in the sound of victory.
Regarding the bizarre situation at that time, the Kuomintang general Song Xilian once sighed: "Many middle and higher-level officers took advantage of the opportunity to go to major cities to receive the war after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, made a fortune, did business, bought real estate, were greedy for women, extravagant and extravagant, corrupt and depraved, and became centrifugal and the army had no fighting spirit. This is the fundamental reason for our military failure."
Chiang Kai-shek's confidant general and commander-in-chief of Beijing and Shanghai Security Tang Enbo told the then mayor of the Kuomintang Shanghai Wu Guozhen that his troops lacked gasoline, and Wu Guozhen used the funds raised from the merchants to buy the necessary amount of gasoline. Soon Wu Guozhen discovered that Tang Enbo's headquarters sold gasoline on the black market.
Chu Anping, editor-in-chief of Observation magazine, once wrote: "In the mind of the Kuomintang, their biggest enemy today is the Communist Party. However, they rarely reflect on the reason why the Communist Party's power is so enlarged today, and who cultivated it." "The corrupt rule of the Kuomintang is one of the main reasons for the Communist Party's expansion today... I think the corrupt rule of the Kuomintang is the 'mother of the Communist Party'. It creates the Communist Party and it cultivates the Communist Party."
Months after Japan surrendered to , Chiang Kai-shek couldn't wait to provoke the civil war , and the Kuomintang spy organization started to investigate the hidden "communist spies" in the Kuomintang army. How to identify Communist Party members? Mao Renfeng said that we must always focus on those who do not seek prostitution, embezzle, accept bribes, give gifts, eat and drink, and do not oppress the people.
At that time, the senior generals of the Kuomintang army became corrupt, and it was common for officers and soldiers to pay owed military pay. Where did the military pay reach? Most of them are hyped up by the superiors in Shanghai's gold exchanges.
I am the knife and the people are fish. All the important military and political officials of the Kuomintang were fond of their own pockets. They could be said to be greedy for big officials, small officials were greedy for small officials, and all officials were greedy for little officials.
1947, Li Weimin, an outstanding underground worker of our party, sneaked into Shenyang to engage in intelligence and rebellion. On the eve of the Liaoshen Battle , Li Weimin successfully instigated a translator from the Kuomintang's New 6th Army.
In his memoir "Underground Beacon Fire", Li Weimin said that the translator made the following confession to Li Weimin:
"In the past, I couldn't recognize the Kuomintang, but now... what they did is simply unwilling tolerate!" "Not to mention the distance, just talk about the military movement command post, a director named Han Muzhou and a deputy director named Song Guochun. After they arrived in the Northeast, they continued to transport steel pipes and steel plates from Anshan to Tianjin in large quantities, and they were able to regain wealth. With more gold, they would spend their best living.Han Muzhou already had two wives, which was not enough. In addition to messing with women in the dance hall of the brothel, he also fell in love with a young typist in the institute and married the third concubine with coercion and temptation. In the institute, you can climb up and kick it down, the despicable people are the most powerful, and the most upright people are the most bullied... You see, what kind of world is this? "
The translator's words revealed the historical inevitability of the Kuomintang's final failure.
In the Huaihai Battle , the commander of the "Suppression Chief" of the Kuomintang army was Liu Zhi, but Liu Zhi could not fight, so the real power was in the hands of the deputy commander-in-chief Du Yuming .
After Huang Baitao's corps was completely wiped out in Nianzhuang, hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops stationed in Xuzhou area were in panic all day long. So with Chiang Kai-shek's consent Next, there was the Xuzhou retreat commanded by Du Yuming.
Du Yuming thought he had done a good job of confidentiality. The night before the retreat, Du Yuming only issued an order to Tan Fulie, the security commander of Xuzhou , demanding that the treasury of Xuzhou , that night, the treasury of treasury in Xuzhou Bank and the money house be sealed that night, because some gold needs to be transported away.
But the security commander Tan Fulie came back soon and reported, "Not to mention the treasury, all the managers and shopkeepers and family members of the money house left Xuzhou three days ago. "
At this time, Du Yuming understood: Many of the senior officials of the Nanjing Ministry of National Defense have business in Xuzhou! The leak happened at the top! So he sighed to the sky: If the Kuomintang is undefeated, it is unreasonable!
There is another strange thing. A car team under the Kuomintang Xuzhou Suppression General was secretly controlled by underground workers of our party. Two-thirds of the cars have been transported for our party and army for many years, and one-third are run by the Kuomintang. In this way, they are often commended. Why does
Such an incredible situation occurred? It turned out to be like this: the convoys that our party had no control could not even run, good cars were smuggled, and all car parts were stolen and sold.
The corruption of the Kuomintang was the corruption from top to bottom. In early 1948, Chiang Kai-shek said heartbrokenly at the opening ceremony of the cadre training class for the suppression of rebellion and founding of the country: "To be honest, no revolutionary party in ancient and modern times, China and abroad is as decadent and corrupt as we are today, nor is there the lack of spirit, discipline, and no right or wrong standards like ours today.
On November 24, 1948, Chiang Kai-shek wrote in his diary: "The selfishness, incompetence, scatteredness and corruption of the party, government and military cadres is hopeless." His despair can be seen. After fleeing to Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek once said to senior officials: "Today, I am sad to point out that the corruption shown in our revolutionary army from the late stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan to the present is truly amazing and unimaginable."
US President Truman , who once supported Chiang Kai-shek's group, cursed in an interview: They (KMT) are all thieves, and they are all fucking thieves... They stole 750 million from the billions of dollars we aid, and they stole our money and then invested in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and some even New York real estate under our feet.
When Truman was interviewed at the age of 77, he still felt angry when he mentioned Chiang Kai-shek, saying: "I have never changed my view of Chiang and his group of people. They all deserve to go to prison! If I live to see the day when they were sent to prison, I would be very happy."
Today, on the Internet, the Kuomintang is called the "a century-old bad party" by many young people. Looking back on the real history, people have reason to believe that young people have not wronged the Kuomintang, which no one can support the wall. (Liu Jixing)
