Yes, when Chiang Ching-kuo delivered a speech to the National Assembly on December 15, 1985, he clearly responded to the question of whether any Chiang family members would be in power behind him, and replied: "Since You can't and you won't."

In March 1978, the nearly 70-year-old Chiang Ching-kuo became the leader of Taiwan and successfully "inherited his father's legacy." And his plan to train a successor has already begun. Jiang Jingguo had three sons, the eldest son Jiang Xiaowen, the second son Jiang Xiaowu, and the third son Jiang Xiaoyong. Jiang Xiaowen was pampered since childhood and was known as a playboy and a delinquent.

Among the three young masters of the Jiang family, Jiang Xiaowu is the most favored. He was calm by nature and rarely caused trouble when he was young, so he won the favor of Chiang Kai-shek and his son. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was full of hope that his grandson could enter the military and gain military power, so he named him Xiaowu. In order for him to receive formal military education, Chiang Kai-shek sent him to Germany. Later, because Jiang Xiaowu was not interested in the military, he switched to politics.

Chiang Ching-kuo’s method of training Jiang Xiaowu was basically a copy of Chiang Kai-shek’s method of training him from the beginning. Chiang Ching-kuo has allowed Jiang Xiaowu to enter the intelligence department since 1976, and later he held important positions in many departments and was involved in important systems such as party affairs, military special affairs, and propaganda. Moreover, in order to prevent the brothers from fighting for power, Chiang Ching-kuo did not let his third son, Jiang Xiaoyong, get involved in politics, but arranged for him to enter the business world.

On the issue of succession, Jiang Xiaowu was also very ambitious and even put a lot of thought into image design. Jiang Xiaowu inherited his mother Jiang Fangliang's yellow hair and blue eyes, but in order to make himself look like a "descendant of Yan and Huang", he dyed his hair black. At the same time, he also asked experts to specially design a contact lens. As long as he wears it, he will The eyes turned black. In this way, when taking the "Chinese" class, you will not look nondescript.

Of course, Jiang Xiaowu is not without "shortcomings". Jiang Xiaowu's private life was relatively indulgent and there were many scandals. In August 1968, Jiang Xiaowu, who was studying in Germany, met Wang Changshi, a 17-year-old Swiss-Chinese girl. The two got married in the United States six months later and gave birth to a son, Yousong, and a daughter, Qinlan. But soon, Wang Changshi noticed that there were female movie stars around her husband. As a result, quarrels ensued.

After Wang Changshi ran away from home, everyone in the Jiang family tried their best to save Wang Changshi. Jiang Xiaowu and Wang Changshi, who had been married for 7 years, finally chose to divorce. This incident caused Jiang Xiaowu's status in Chiang Ching-kuo's mind to fall to the bottom. In Chiang Ching-kuo's mind, what qualifications does a child who can't even make peace with his family have to talk about taking over?

In order to succeed Chiang III, Chiang Ching-kuo began to reuse third-generation figures who had no personal team but were absolutely loyal to the Chiang family, such as Chen Lu'an, Soong Chuyu, Lien Chan and others. The purpose was to let them gradually seize real power. In order to escort Jiang Xiaowu's succession. However, the occurrence of the "Jiangnan Murder Case" directly caused Chiang Ching-kuo's son's deployment to get out of control.

Jiang Nan (formerly known as Liu Yiliang) was a reporter for the "Taiwan Daily". He later came to the United States as a special correspondent of the "Taiwan Daily" and became an American citizen. While in the United States, Jiang Nan began to write "The Biography of Chiang Ching-kuo" and serialized it in the Los Angeles "Tribune". The book revealed many "secrets" of the Chiang family, which made Chiang Ching-kuo angry.

On October 15, 1984, Jiang Nan was shot and killed in San Francisco. The U.S. police quickly solved the case and identified the assassins as Chen Qili, the leader of the "Bamboo Union Gang" and three other people. They were acting in accordance with the instructions of the "Secret Service" department of the Taiwan authorities. At that time, Chen Qili left a life-saving tape to "White Wolf" Zhang Anle. Zhang Anle brought the tape and announced in Los Angeles: There was another instigator behind the "Jiangnan Case".

Many years later, Zhang Anle revealed that he wanted to save his brothers and take the overall situation into consideration, so he targeted Jiang Xiaowu and asked him to take the blame for his father. Suddenly, Chiang Ching-kuo and the Taiwan authorities were discredited internationally, and the attitude of the Americans also put strong pressure on Chiang Ching-kuo.

Chiang Ching-kuo had no choice but to "exile" Jiang Xiaowu to Singapore as a "business representative" and asked his friend Lee Kuan Yew to take care of him. Jiang Xiaowu has since faded out of politics, and Chiang Ching-kuo's succession plan has completely gone bankrupt.

The occurrence of the "Jiangnan Murder Case" made Chiang Ching-kuo realize that he might be labeled a "dictator and tyrant" by future generations. At the same time, another factor that was extremely detrimental to the maintenance of Chiang's dictatorship was the highly extroverted nature of Taiwan's economy and culture. In a small but quasi-open society, a dictatorship faces enormous international moral disapproval.

In order to save the Jiang family regime from the crisis of losing power, Soong Meiling flew back to Taiwan from the United States shortly after the "Jiangnan Murder Case" in an attempt to lobby the Kuomintang for the "return to the constitution" reform being implemented in Taiwan by the seriously ill Chiang Ching-kuo. The veteran figures strived to provide help to Chiang Ching-kuo and provide immediate guidance and planning for possible handover obstacles that might occur before the end of the Chiang regime.

However, even though Soong Meiling had good intentions, Chiang Ching-kuo had no intention of adopting it. The political situation in Taiwan after the "Jiangnan Incident" no longer allowed Chiang Ching-kuo to dream of "passing on his son".

On August 16, 1985, in an exclusive interview with the American "Time" magazine, Chiang Ching-kuo made a special statement: "Taiwan's leaders will be elected in accordance with the law, and succession by members of the Chiang family has never been considered." From then on, the Chiang family The "hereditary" system of the dynasty has become disillusioned, the door to democratic constitutional government has been opened, and Taiwan has begun to embark on the road to democracy.

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Biography of the character

Chiang Ching-kuo is the son of Chiang Kai-shek, also known as Jianfeng, his Russian name is Nikolay, and he was born in Fenghua, Zhejiang. In 1920, Chiang Ching-kuo studied at the famous Wanzhu Primary School in Shanghai. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was following Sun Yat-sen to work in Guangdong, so he entrusted Chen Guofu, who was doing business in Shanghai, to take care of Chiang Ching-kuo.

In October 1925, Chiang Ching-kuo went to the Soviet Union to study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, and soon joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12" coup and openly opposed the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. As a result, the 17-year-old Chiang Ching-kuo was demoted to Siberia as a private soldier.

After the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup, Chiang Ching-kuo issued a statement condemning Chiang Kai-shek for betraying the revolution. In the autumn of 1928, he returned to Moscow and studied at the Red Army Military Academy in Leningrad Tomaka. In 1935, Chiang Ching-kuo married Finna, a female mine worker in the Soviet Union. Fenna later changed her name to Jiang Fangliang.

In January 1936, Chiang Ching-kuo published an open letter condemning Chiang Kai-shek in the Soviet newspaper "Pravda". The next year, on the eve of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in China, he was allowed to return to China. From studying abroad in October 1925 to returning to China in 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo lived in the Soviet Union for 12 years.

After returning to China, his father Chiang Kai-shek first arranged for him to read ancient books such as "Mencius" and "Family Letters of Zeng Wenzhenggong (Zeng Guofan)" in his hometown of Xikou, Fenghua, and asked him to "make up lessons" and "cleanse". Brain", and also asked him to read books such as "The Complete Works of the Prime Minister" and "Mr. Chiang Kai-shek Fifteen Years Ago".

After the fall of Shanghai, Chiang Ching-kuo first did some general work in Nanchang. In 1938, he was appointed as the county magistrate of Gan County. After 1939, he served as inspector of the Fourth Administrative District of Jiangxi, district security commander, air defense commander, protection team leader, director of the Jiangxi Branch of the Three People's Principles Youth League, and member of the Jiangxi Provincial Government, but he never achieved much results.

In January 1944, Chiang Ching-kuo served as the director of the Central Cadre School of the Three Youth League. In October of that year, he participated in the 100,000 youth military movement launched by his father Chiang Kai-shek and served as the director of the General Political Department of the Youth Army. .

In the spring of 1945, Chiang Ching-kuo followed Song Ziwen, the "Executive President" of the Kuomintang government at the time, to the Soviet Union for negotiations and signed the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Ching-kuo was appointed as the diplomatic commissioner for the Northeast Camp. Since then, he has been controlling the "Three Youth League", becoming the leader of a faction of the Kuomintang and his father's right-hand man.

In January 1949, after Chiang Kai-shek announced his "resignation", Chiang Ching-kuo accompanied his father to retreat to Xikou, and later boarded a plane in Chengdu to fly to Taiwan. In Taiwan, he served as Chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Party Committee of the Kuomintang, Director of the General Political Department of the Taiwan Kuomintang's "Ministry of Defense", Deputy Minister and Minister of the "Ministry of Defense", Vice President and President of the "Executive Yuan", etc. After Chiang Kai-shek died of illness, Chiang Ching-kuo became the sixth "President" of Taiwan on May 20, 1978. He died of illness in Taipei on January 13, 1988.

After Chiang Ching-kuo died of illness, Taiwan established the "Chiang Ching-kuo Funeral Committee". On January 30, a grand burial ceremony was held for the body. The body was then placed in Daxi Town, Taoyuan County, preparing to be transported back to the mainland for burial in the future.

Mainland leaders expressed deep condolences for the unfortunate death of Chiang Ching-kuo, and issued a speech on January 14, affirming that Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo insisted on one China, opposed "Taiwan independence", advocated national reunification, and expressed their commitment to This series of actions has made an account of history and made certain efforts to ease cross-strait relations.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, relevant persons and Chiang Ching-kuo’s relatives in the mainland have all sent messages of condolence to Taipei.

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