New Taipei City Xindian Wenyuan Vault is currently stationed by a military police officer, with high security, and it is difficult for outsiders to get a glimpse of the truth. This photo was taken a few years ago when the "legislator" candidate went to "check gold". (Taiwan United Daily News)
China Taiwan Network September 7th The ruling Democratic Progressive Party authorities have pressed step by step in recent days to liquidate the assets of the Kuomintang, causing the Blue Camp and the Chairman of the Kuomintang Hung Hsiu-chu to to counter-criticize: If the assets of the Kuomintang are really to be liquidated, then will the gold transported from the mainland to Taiwan in the Chiang Kai-shek era also be returned to the Kuomintang? Is it necessary to return the national treasures of the Forbidden City brought from the mainland? To whom will it be returned? How to repay? For a time, the outside world once again attracted attention on the eve of the Kuomintang's defeat in the mainland.
Chiang Kai-shek's gold transport to Taiwan was accused of still 1.08 million taels left, and it exists in the New Taipei Treasury
in Taiwan. It is often said that the outside world has spent all of this gold in September 1950, but Taiwan's United Daily News reported today that Wu Xingyong, the son of Wu Songqing, the "Joint Logistics Headquarters Finance Director" who was responsible for transporting gold, emphasized after comparing the diaries of his father and Chiang Kai-shek and the declassified official files between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait that "gold is used up" is by no means a fact. Currently, Taiwan’s “Central Bank” collects gold in the Xindian Wenyuan Vault in New Taipei City, 1.08 million taels of which were brought in the original form.
It is reported that Wu Xingyong, currently a professor at the University of California School of Medicine, recently cooperated with Taiwan's "Taiwan History Institute of China Research Institute" to publish his father's diary from 1946 to 1951. He gave a speech at the Social Resources Center of Taiwan Politics University yesterday afternoon, introducing the source, quantity and whereabouts of gold in the "National Government".
is the most commonly cited argument that proves that "gold runs out" and is the memoir of "Jiang Gong and Me" by Chiang Kai-shek's confidential secretary Zhou Hongtao. Wu Xingyong said that Zhou Hongtao and his father were old friends for many years, but his memories in his later years were obviously wrong. Zhou Hongtao's book said that in June 1950, the "central bank" only had 540,000 taels of gold, and the monthly military supply was 180,000 taels, so it was spent in September. But in fact, there is another one million taels of gold in Taiwan that is located under the name of Taiwan Bank, including 800,000 taels of , issuance reserve; there is also a deposit in the United States.
As for How much gold did Chiang Kai-shek transport to Taiwan back then? At the end of 1948, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the transport of the first batch of 2 million taels of gold to Taiwan. Later, a total of 6 batches were divided into vacate all the deposits on the hand of the "central bank" at that time, totaling about 4 million taels of gold, and transported to Taiwan and Gulangyu, Xiamen.
Among them, 1.3 million taels were spent on various battlefields on the mainland (southeast, southwest, and northwest). As for Taiwan, from mid-1949 to early 1951, the "government" expenses included military expenses, civil servant salaries, office expenses, issuance of NT$, etc., all rely on these gold to spend.
The green camp wants to return the "impartial party property" to the original owner. Will 1.08 million taels of gold be returned to the mainland?
The so-called "Improper Party Products Ordinance" led by the green camp was passed in the "Legislative Yuan" in Taiwan on July 25. On August 30, the Tsai Ing-wen administration’s “Improper Party Property Handling Committee” was immediately listed and the “legislator” of the Democratic Progressive Party, who served as the “Chief Member” of the organization, bluntly said: “Improper Party Property Committee” is the “Correction of Accounts” . Previously, he also said that he would investigate all the property obtained by the Kuomintang since 1945, including existing party property and all property that may be seized from the private, in the name of others, and affiliated organizations, and will use judicial power to intervene in .
In this regard, Taiwanese media once pointed out that since the "Improper Party Product Regulations" stipulates, the starting time for the inspection of "Improper Party Products" is in 1945, and includes the "may be taken away from the civilian". Then, the Kuomintang should have the right to claim that the "central bank" gold and the Forbidden City national treasure that arrived in Taiwan from November 1948 belong to the Kuomintang's party property, and legal procedures were initiated to clean up. What's more, the order to transport gold at that time was " Kuomintang President ". The transportation operation was not carried out through the statutory procedures at that time, but was based on the intention of the "Korean Party President". Therefore, the Kuomintang has its own right to claim this batch of gold.
It is pointed out that the source of this batch of gold is mainly the private gold handed over by the Chiang Kai-shek regime in August 1948, in the name of issuing gold round coupons , and through authoritarian and semi-coercive means. At that time, the gold content of each round of gold coupon was 0.22217 grams. After the issuance of the gold coupon, it depreciated rapidly and violently due to war and stopped circulation in July 1949. Most of the gold exchanged for gold yuan was shipped to Taiwan, becoming the gold reserve for issuing New Taiwan dollar banknotes in June 1949, and the New Taiwan dollar had enough gold preparations. From this perspective, it would be undoubtedly true that calls this batch of gold "taken away" by the mainland.
Taiwan media said that since the DPP authorities want to clean up the KMT's property that may be seized from the people and return it to the original owner, the mainland people naturally have the right to claim their rights and demand that Taiwan return it. (China Taiwan Network Wang Siyu)
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