During the Anti-Japanese War, the corruption-ridden system of arresting young men of the Nationalist government aroused criticism from domestic and foreign public opinion. As the highest official, Chairman Chiang naturally could not sit idly by and ignored it. Therefore, he took a series of measures to rectify the system of arresting young men and formulated it in legislation. Many methods have been developed to prevent the disadvantages, but with little effect. The biggest result is that more people come to share the human blood steamed buns of the strong men.
In January 1938, Chiang Kai-shek issued a telegraph order: "During the current Anti-Japanese War, the life of the entire country and the nation is at risk. All civil and military generals at all levels must inspire loyalty and be honest and honest. If there is corruption or illegality, fraud for personal gain." Or invade fishing Anyone who embezzles public funds or deducts military pay, or extorts or defrauds people's property under pretexts, once found, will be subject to military law. Regardless of their position, they will be severely punished. In addition to the fact that the association will dispatch important personnel to various places at any time for close investigation, all personnel will be punished. In particular, officers in charge should carefully conduct inspections, break away from sentiments, and make reports at any time, so as to eliminate corruption and punish stubbornness."
This telegram was Chiang Kai-shek's first telegram on the issue of corruption in political and military discipline during the Anti-Japanese War. It was intended to declare to the whole country the determination of the National Government to punish corruption, and to establish military courts in various places to carry out anti-corruption and military campaigns. Senior officials from the Prosecutor's Office and the Military Law Enforcement Directorate set up a military discipline inspection team to inspect military discipline and punish corruption. The Supreme Military Council and the Ministry of Military Affairs were also ordered to form a number of military service inspection teams to inspect military service in local areas to rectify military service work. .
However, due to the entrenched corruption, these measures had little effect. Many inspectors took the opportunity to extort property from local leaders, but the result was only a few more people to share the wealth, such as the head of the Chongqing Military Service Inspection Group who went to Shaanxi in 1940. Peng, who had often ripped off the military administrators in Henan before, arrived in a division-controlled area in Shaanxi. Send people to Weinan counties to collect gifts and property. Zhao Ji, deputy commander of the Luzhou Division, disclosed the essence of the Kuomintang's military service inspections in the article "Inside Story of the Military Service Administration of the Kuomintang Military and Political Department": There are 6 inspector training classes set up by the Military Service Administration. After graduating in the month, they were assigned to counties and divisions and supplementary training offices. The name was to inspect the implementation of the Military Service Law , but in fact it was extortion and money-making.
For example, Li Bi, the inspector stationed in Yichang, Sichuan, first made threats after taking office, saying, "I am an imperial minister sent by the Military Service Administration to learn the truth about the Military Service Law. Your fate is all in my hands." , forcing the Yichang Division to administer supplementary training every day To silence him, he paid 10 soldiers per month. Another example is that from the spring of 1940 to 1945, Wu Kai, the commander of the third regiment of the supplementary training department, led the regiment to Yunnan for a war, and when he left, he carried 10,000 kilograms of Sichuan salt. , if the recruits carry it on their backs to Qujing, Yunnan, and sell it, they can make 5 to 10 times the profit. Li Bi took the opportunity to ask Wu Kai for a leather robe worth 50,000 yuan in French currency. Wu asked the quartermaster to give him 50 silver coins. Li Suishao refused to accept it, and immediately complained to the Military Service Administration. As a result, Wu was dismissed from his post and investigated. At the same time, Zhou Shiquan, head of the 30th Remedial Training Division in Hejiang , took 15,000 kilograms of salt to Kunming to sell. Zhou gave Li 80 silver dollars beforehand. As a result, Zhou was commended by the order for "excellent performance" .
Another example is Hu Qiyi, the commander of the Guixing Division in Guizhou, a second-term student in Huangpu , and served as the captain of the teaching corps. He has an arrogant personality and usually looks down on Cheng Zerun, the director of the Military Service Department. When the Military Service Administration sent Wu Keming to serve in the district, Hu Qiyi refused and sent him back. Cheng Zerun was furious and sent an inspector named Wang to the district to collect Hu Qiyi's misdeeds, such as disregarding human life, blackmailing young men, corruption and fraud, etc. After Wang's report was compiled, the Ministry of Military Affairs removed Hu Qiyi from his post and investigated him. After trial by the Military Justice Department, he was shot to death in May 1942. Regarding the recruitment of new soldiers, the Military Service Administration directly handles it, and inspectors are often sent to patrol for supervision. The Military Service Section Chief only obeys in the name of the Military Service Administration and takes the opportunity to extort money.
As for some service officials who were found guilty of corruption, they could not be mentioned because of their special status. Many corrupt officials had various relationships with senior officials of the National Government and used them after being found guilty. Human relations are still exempted from punishment. Lu Zhonglin, the former Minister of the Military Service Department of the Nationalist Government, wrote in the article "The Establishment and Service Administration of the Military Service Department": The commander of the Xulu Division in Sichuan was dismissed from his post due to corruption and fraud, and the legal punishment was to be punished after it was found out . This commander "wears a yellow jacket." Gendarmerie Commander Zhang Zhen once went to Qin Dechun, Parliamentary Undersecretary of the Ministry of Military Service, and said: "So-and-so is an old classmate of Huangpu, and his qualifications are very old. Should we save some face? Otherwise, Even Huangpu classmate felt that his face looked ugly!" The commander was removed from his post, but the case was still dropped after it was transferred to the Military Law Enforcement Directorate.
The commander of a certain division in Guangxi falsely reported the amount of conscription and received conscription fees and military pay. Later, when Lu Zhonglin ordered him to allocate new recruits, he had no soldiers to allocate. After this fraud was exposed, when the Ministry of Military Service was investigating the commander, Li Zongren telegraphed Lu Zhonglin, asking Lu Zhonglin to "pay special attention" to the commander! The result was that the commander was removed from his post.
The commander of the divisional area in northern Anhui Li Wentian is an old member of the Northwest Army. He has been reported to have engaged in various corruption and illegal activities. He was then transferred to Chongqing by phone and handed over to the Military Justice Department for forwarding to the Military Justice Executive Directorate for legal action. When he saw Lu Zhonglin, he said calmly: "Since my case has been handed over to the military court for trial, you can leave it alone." Later, Lu Zhonglin found out that he had sent generous gifts to all parties, and as a result, he had obtained "evidence" "Insufficient" shall be exempted from legal action.
While I was investigating several division area commanders, feedback signals were sent from various quarters. Xu Siping, the deputy director of the Ministry of Military Service, twice invited the chief secretary Han Meicen to his office and said: "I don't have enough relationship with Minister Lu to advise him. The commander of such and such division is a person of Deng Jingong (that is, Deng Xihou). So-and-so, the commander of such-and-such division's administrative area, is also an old friend of so-and-so. Please pay attention!"
During an "official residence report" (Chiang Kai-shek regularly convened work reports at his residence), Lu Zhonglin reported on severely punishing lawless personnel and eliminating long-standing abuses in military service. Chiang Kai-shek was noncommittal after hearing this. smiled.
With all these mutual protections, the big tigers dare not rebel, but the little tigers cannot resist. The Kuomintang’s vigorous anti-corruption campaign has naturally become empty talk. Huang Wei once angrily pointed out: “Fish in troubled waters, engage in corruption and fraud, and you will become fat. Everyone can get some benefits, but everyone says that they are friendly enough and will bear with each other if there are problems. This is a matter of doing good or bad, and doing bad is good, justice is ruined, and right and wrong are reversed. "
But behind the exchanges of interests between these people, It is the blood and tears of millions of strong men!
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