As the capital of Taiwan Province, Taipei City has long been the central core of the entire Taiwan Island , and the position of mayor of Taipei is naturally also attracting much attention from the outside world. From 1972 to 1994, the mayor of Taipei was led by the Kuomintang, and it can be said to be an important fortress of the Kuomintang. In 1994, Chen Shui-bian of the DPP defeated Huang Dazhou of the Kuomintang and Zhao Shaokang, an independent member, and became the mayor of Taipei. The Kuomintang's defense line in the north has been loosened. In 1998, Ma Ying-jeou, who had served as the head of the legal department, officially ran for the mayor of Taipei. In order to get Lee Teng-hui's support, Ma Ying-jeou publicly expressed his loyalty to Lee Teng-hui. During his reign, Lee Teng-hui vigorously promoted the so-called "localization" and reused cadres from Taiwan. Ma Ying-jeou thought about his preferences and claimed that "he is a new Taiwanese who grew up eating Taiwanese rice and drinking Taiwanese water." He was successfully elected. I will tell you what the specific situation is.
Lee Teng-hui supports Ma Ying-jeou
sparks in 1998 Taipei mayoral election battle
Since the founding of the Democratic Progressive Party in 1986, this political force with the main banner against the Kuomintang has risen rapidly and has built a world in all counties and cities in Taiwan. As the core of the entire Taiwan Island, Taipei City naturally has the DPP’s seat. Since Taiwan was liberated in 1945, the mayor of Taipei has been the most important local supervisor on the entire Taiwan island.
Huang Dazhou
In the Taipei mayoral election in 1994, the source of the Kuomintang's votes was equally divided into two halves, shared by Huang Dazhou and Zhao Shaokang, the then mayor of the Kuomintang. Therefore, Chen Shui-bian of the DPP entered the pass and reaped the benefits of the fisherman and became the mayor of Taipei. During the four years Chen Shui-bian was mayor, he has indeed made some achievements in Taipei City based on his own political calculations and his unscrupulous style of dealing with things. For example, he used iron-fisted means to "anti-pornography" and "eliminate evil" and demolished many illegal private constructions by politicians. Logically speaking, it was not difficult for him to seek re-election in 1998. , a rising star with more political charm than him emerged on Taiwan at that time. He was Ma Ying-jeou, who had served as the head of Taiwan's legal department. Although Ma Ying-jeou and Chen Shui-bian were in the same year, when it comes to election experience, Ma Ying-jeou is still Chen Shui-bian's junior. However, with his special affinity and handsome appearance, he captured the support of many Taiwanese women and became a rising star in politics.
Ma Ying-jeou
Ma Ying-jeou was once the English translator of Jiang Ching-kuo , and also served as deputy director of the news department, and has a certain degree of recognition in society. After Lee Teng-hui came to power, Ma Ying-jeou became a member of the Mainland Commission and served as deputy director. On February 27, 1993, the head of the administrative department of Taiwan, Lien Chan , organized a large number of elites with doctoral degrees to enter the core level to serve as supervisors of various departments, and Ma Ying-jeou therefore took over the legal department. However, Ma Ying-jeou's identity background is not liked by Lee Teng-hui, and he posed a significant threat to Lee Teng-hui's "black gold policy". In 1996, Ma Ying-jeou was awarded the idle position of "Government Affairs Commissioner", which is equivalent to being hidden. After Lee Teng-hui completely forced Hao Baicun away in 1993, no one could restrict his power. He vigorously promoted the "provincial people" born on Taiwan Island to important positions, and even once only looked at their hometown but not their abilities, and appointed a large number of obedient "mediocre talents" in their province.
Lee Teng-hui
In 1997, the "Bai Xiaoyan murder case" occurred in Taiwan Province. The daughter of the famous movie star Bai Bingbing was kidnapped and killed by the bandits. The bandit leader was not only not arrested in time, but also fled into a villa in Taiwan by South African military officer Zhuo Maoqi and kidnapped Zhuo Maoqi's family. Later, the Democratic Progressive Party's Tse Changting served as the negotiator, and the criminal police captain Hou Youyi rushed into the villa to rescue talents and barely resolved the case. However, this vicious incident also caused Lien Chan, the head of the administrative agency at that time, to be criticized. Ma Ying-jeou, who had been hidden in the air, also issued an announcement of his resignation. He wanted to return to the Political University as an associate professor and officially joined the company in August 1997. At the same time, he also rejected the request of the Kuomintang members at that time to support his election as mayor of Taipei. has changed the times, and it is used to describe it as "the background of time and space is different." In early 1998, Associate Professor Ma officially made a comeback and entered politics again, becoming a candidate for the Kuomintang for Taipei Mayor in 1998.
Real battles
Local counties and cities on the island of Taiwan can get more convenient conditions when seeking re-election and can mobilize a lot of public resources to build momentum for themselves. Ma Ying-jeou faced Chen Shui-bian who was seeking re-election, which can be said to be under a lot of pressure. The most important thing is that although Ma Ying-jeou was nominated by the Kuomintang, he has never received strong support from the Kuomintang Chairman Lee Teng-hui. Lee Teng-hui has always been lukewarm about Ma Ying-jeou's run and does not seem to be optimistic about it. This point in also made Ma Ying-jeou anxious. In fact, Ma Ying-jeou had briefly served as Lee Teng-hui's English translator. Although it only lasted for half a year, it was considered a friendship between superiors and subordinates. The reason Lee Teng-hui was disgusted with Ma Ying-jeou on the one hand because Ma Ying-jeou is not a pure Taiwanese province. On the other hand, it is because Ma Ying-jeou vigorously fought against corruption during his time as the head of the legal department and punished hundreds of Kuomintang lawmakers and officials. There are many Lee Teng-hui's soldiers among these people. Many years later, Lee Teng-hui still resented Ma Ying-jeou for this incident and denounced him as "almost destroyed the Kuomintang." In view of this, Lee Teng-hui naturally does not want to see Ma Ying-jeou win the election.
Taipei
Although Ma Ying-jeou is from Xiangtan, Hunan, he was born in Guanghua Hospital, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong in 1950. At that time, Hong Kong was still under the control of the British. Strictly speaking, Ma Ying-jeou's hometown could be counted in the accounts of Hong Kong and the UK. Ma Ying-jeou moved to Taipei City with his parents in 1952, and then lived in Taipei. This identity also made Lee Teng-hui disgusted. In order to make up for this psychological gap, Ma Ying-jeou also did a lot of work. December 24, 1998 was the "before-election night" of the Taipei mayoral election. Lee Teng-hui stood by Ma Ying-jeou at this last moment and built momentum with him. At that time, Lee Teng-hui asked Ma Ying-jeou publicly on the stage: "Mr. Ma, tell me, where are you from? ." Ma Ying-jeou also directly announced to Lee Teng-hui: "Report to the chief, I am a new Taiwanese who drinks Taiwanese water and eats Taiwanese rice. " This is undoubtedly a loyalty to Lee Teng-hui, and it also a matter of his preference. Sure enough, Lee Teng-hui's influence directly brought Ma Ying-jeou to the throne of Taipei mayor, and Chen Shui-bian lost the election by less than 100,000 votes.
Politician who eats Taiwanese rice and drinks Taiwanese water
Ma Ying-jeou is loyal to Lee Teng-hui, calling himself a "new Taiwanese who drinks Taiwanese water and eats Taiwanese rice." This sentence actually has a great impact on the future political development of Taiwan. In the future, many politicians will use this sentence to express their feelings and closeness to Taiwan. In 2015, Hung Hsiu-chu was surrounded by green camp forces on the island and was also labeled as the "red hat" of "urgent rule". She said at that time that she grew up eating Taiwanese rice and drinking Taiwanese water, so how could she not love Taiwan? In 2021, Zhao Shaokang, who changed his career to become a tycoon in the Taiwan media industry, returned to politics. He also repeatedly emphasized that " was born from Keelung , eat Taiwanese rice and drink Taiwanese water, and speaks Taiwanese dialect " .This sentence has actually become a common rhetoric used by the Kuomintang's provincial people to express their feelings for Taiwan. In the final analysis, the "localization" policy introduced by Lee Teng-hui during his reign is still working. When origin becomes an important reference for personnel appointments, a large number of professional politicians who play with their origins will inevitably appear.
Zhao Shaokang
Ma Ying-jeou's rule career was to play with his hometown with ease, which can be said to have fully squeezed out the surplus value. When he needs to show closeness to the mainland, he says he is a "Hunan son" and a member of the Chinese. When he needs to express his loyalty to Western forces, he will emphasize that he was born in Hong Kong under British management and also studied and worked in the United States for many years, and his eldest daughter was also born in the United States. And when he needs to speak to the people close to the DPP, he emphasizes his identity as a "Taiwanese". In fact, this series of words are derived from the that Chiang Ching-kuo once said during his reign, "I have lived and worked in Taiwan for 40 years. I am Taiwanese and Chinese." But these disciples of the Kuomintang completely forgot the background of the times in which Chiang Ching-kuo was at that time. Back then, Chiang Ching-kuo was a political strongman who monopolized the power of the island and was the only political strongman. He used the argument of "I am Taiwanese and Chinese" to highlight the key point of being a Chinese, and on the other hand, he also wanted to appease the locals in Taiwan.
Chiang Ching-kuo
But the current environment is very different from that time. The Kuomintang has long been marked by the Democratic Progressive Party as "foreign forces". The saying "I am a Taiwanese" is no longer enough to win the trust of the people. The biggest weapon in the hands of the DPP is their cognitive combat capability. The East Asian nation has the nature of being close to one's own people and alienating foreigners in its bones. We will unknowingly tend to have a cognitive relationship with people and things that have some kind of relationship with us, and have a natural sense of strangeness to outsiders. The Democratic Progressive Party used this method to differentiate and disintegrate the public opinion base of Taiwan. They turned the Kuomintang and the mainland into "outsiders" and claimed that they were the "relatives" of the Taiwanese people. In decades of brainwashing propaganda, many grassroots Taiwanese people have accepted this setting. I remember there was a report like this: as long as the mainland spouse living in Taiwan speaks for the mainland in public, even if he says good things about the mainland in a chat between friends. The villagers around will gather to say "You are eating Taiwanese rice and drinking Taiwanese water now. How can you speak for the mainland?"
Taiwan rice fields
From these silhouettes in Taiwan's social life, it is not difficult for us to see the terribleness of this cognitive warfare. Although we have always emphasized that the mainland and Taiwan are brothers with blood thicker than water, they are divided and disintegrated by the saying "Eat Taiwanese rice and drink Taiwanese water". In fact, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the people on Taiwan were eating food transported from the mainland and wearing cloth exchanged with mainlanders. The officials on Taiwan were responsible for managing the people from the mainland. Even the population, agricultural tools and technology of arable land operations come from the southeast coast of the mainland. Taiwan’s earliest water conservancy projects, Babaozhen, , and Caogongzhen, were all built by mainland immigrants and their descendants. In this way, what Taiwan eats is actually "Chinese rice", what it drinks "Chinese water", and the place where it lives is China's land. This historical connection is unbroken by the DPP authorities and cannot be erased by the Kuomintang politicians. We can only see from a series of farces that politicians deliberately hype topics and compete for political status, while what is damaged is the long-term relationship between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
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