Sacrifice one's life is great

Sacrifice for righteousness is great. On April 5, 1975, in front of Chiang Kai-shek's body, an old man leaned over gently, his trembling fingers stroked the crystal coffin, and his expression was dignified. He was Zhang Xueliang, one of the protagonists of the Xi 'an Incident that year. At this time, he had been imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek for 40 years.

Zhang Xueliang, once Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man, was imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek for more than half a century after the Xi 'an Incident. Many people around Song Meiling and Chiang Kai-shek advised him to release Zhang Xueliang, but he didn't agree. Before he died, he told Jiang Jingguo not to release Zhang Xueliang.

In October, 1946, 10 years had passed since Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek. According to the verdict of Nanjing Military Court, he had already served his sentence. He thought that the freedom he had been looking forward to should come. He asked people everywhere to inquire about the situation, hoping to know when he would be released.

Worried Zhang Xueliang waited for the plane to pick him up. When the plane took off, he realized that he was flying to Taiwan Province, an isolated island in the opposite direction to his hometown. Since then, Zhang Xueliang has spent 13 years in Inoue Hot Spring in Hsinchu, Taiwan Province.

Zhang Xueliang realized that he would never be able to return to his hometown again. He hated Chiang Kai-shek's reneging. As the son of the northeast king, Zhang Xueliang yearned for military life from an early age. After graduating from Jiangwutang with excellent results, he went to his father's army as the head.

You never know, in June, 1928, prince Zhang Zuolin was killed by the Japanese, and rumbled Zhang Xueliang's son followed his father's footsteps, becoming the most powerful local force in Northeast China with hundreds of thousands of troops. After the Northeast changed its flag and the Central Plains War, Zhang Xueliang was commensurate with Chiang Kai-shek's brothers.

Chiang Kai-shek's non-resistance policy led to the fall of the three northeastern provinces. For the sake of national justice, on December 12, 1936, Jong Zhang Xueliang and General Yang Hucheng detained Chiang Kai-shek who came to Xi 'an to urge the suppression of the Communist Party, forcing him to stop dealing with the Red Army and unite with the Communist Party to resist Japan.

The Xi 'an Incident that shocked the world happened, Chiang Kai-shek was detained, and the Nanjing government became a mess. He Yingqin, Minister of Military and Political Affairs, advocated a crusade to send planes to bomb Xi 'an, forcing the mutineers to surrender. Song Ziwen and Song Meiling advocated a peaceful solution and actively rescued Chiang Kai-shek.

Zhang Xueliang had a very good personal relationship with Song Meiling. He had sent two telegrams to invite Song Meiling to Xi 'an. Song Meiling decided to fly to Xi 'an in person. When she got off the plane, no armed soldiers were found. Zhang Xueliang greeted her respectfully and warmly.

During the negotiations, Song Meiling promised that if Chiang Kai-shek agreed to their request and Zhang Xueliang could personally escort Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing, I would guarantee your personal safety with my personality. This sentence gave Zhang Shaoshuai a reassurance.

Zhang Xueliang, the rumbled soldier, left to escort Chiang Kai-shek to Nanjing without informing Zhou Enlai and others, regardless of the strong opposition of the people around him. However, when the plane landed in Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek, who was released from the tiger, immediately turned his face against ruthlessness.

As Song Meiling had promised to ensure Zhang Xueliang's safety before, it was not appropriate to do it now. Chiang Kai-shek, who reneged, played a game of cat and mouse, sent someone to send Zhang Xueliang to Nanjing Military Court, and immediately sentenced him to ten years' imprisonment.

Song Meiling was very angry about this judgment. Under her mediation, although Zhang Xueliang didn't go to jail, he was secretly placed under house arrest. In order not to expose the place where he was imprisoned, Zhang Xueliang's residence was often changed.

It is great to sacrifice oneself for righteousness. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Xueliang, who thought he could be free, was not only released, but even almost killed by Chiang Kai-shek. Zhang Xueliang was sent to Hsinchu to continue his imprisoned life. Zhang Xueliang said, I am not dead, but Mrs. Jiang helped me completely, so Mr. Jiang wanted to shoot me.

When Zhang Xueliang was first imprisoned, his wife Yu Fengzhi spent the most difficult time with him. If Song Meiling hadn't fought for him, Zhang Xueliang would have faced countless lonely, painful and unbearable days alone.

Four years after Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned, Yu Fengzhi suffered from breast cancer. If he wanted to survive, he had to go abroad for treatment. Zhang Xueliang had no choice but to ask Song Meiling for help. Without saying anything, Song Meiling immediately arranged for Yu Fengzhi to leave the confinement area and go to the United States for treatment.

After Yu Fengzhi went to the United States for medical treatment, only Zhao Yidi was with him. Due to the inconvenient transportation in the confinement area and the shortage of materials, Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi had to farm their own land to solve the problem of food and clothing. Jong, who once had an army of 300,000, became the commander of chickens and ducks, and every day he had to see if the old hen laid eggs.

In 1950, when Song Meiling met Zhang Xueliang at Daxi Mansion, he hinted that he believed in Christianity. At that time, Zhang Xueliang was studying Buddhism. Song Meiling advised him not to go wrong, saying that God would arrange freedom.

Song Meiling helped Zhang Xueliang hire an English teacher, sent a Christian, and guided him to become a devout Christian. On the grounds that it was convenient for Zhang Xueliang to enter and leave the Christian church, he and Zhao Yidi were allowed to settle in Taipei, thus obtaining religious protection.

On the morning of June 5, 1960, a worship service was held in the chapel of Chiang Kai-shek's official residence. When leaving, Song Meiling rarely shook hands with a bald old man, which surprised the Kuomintang dignitaries present.

It stands to reason that Song Meiling won't shake hands alone on this occasion. I didn't expect that he is Zhang Xueliang, the rumbled soldier who hasn't been seen for 23 years. Years of imprisonment have greatly changed his appearance and severely damaged his mental state.

After going to Yu Fengzhi for treatment, Song Meiling gave Zhang Xueliang a camera, which made the lives of Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi more colorful. From the photos they left behind, we can understand the situation of rumbled Zhang Xueliang.

The photo left behind many scenes of Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi's life. In a remote place where no one has set foot, it looks like a paradise for two people. Although it is not free, it is accompanied by a lover and full of romance. In a group photo of many people, except women and children, the rest are guarded by Zhang Xueliang, and under constant surveillance, it seems that their two people's world has changed its flavor.

The outside world is wonderful, and Zhang Xueliang in the house is helpless. He can't get out of the confined place, and the freedom he has been looking forward to is always from full of expectation to endless disappointment. Chiang Kai-shek didn't want to let him out until he died.

Zhang Xueliang has been mainly to Chiang Kai-shek several times, and his Northeast Army and Northwest Army have repeatedly asked Chiang Kai-shek to release Zhang Xueliang. Chiang Kai-shek said that Zhang Xueliang volunteered to study in the place where he was imprisoned, and he didn't want to be disturbed by others.

Zhang Xueliang pleaded with Chiang Kai-shek through Dai Li, hoping to release him, but Chiang Kai-shek gave Zhang Xueliang a retractable fishing rod, hoping that Zhang Xueliang would behave himself, and it was better to be honest if he wanted to live.

Once, on Chiang Kai-shek's birthday, Zhang Xueliang asked someone to send him a watch, implying that Chiang Kai-shek had been detained long enough and should be relieved. Unexpectedly, Chiang Kai-shek sent him the calendar of 1936 to remind him not to forget what you did that year.

In 1975, Chiang Kai-shek became terminally ill, and Zhang Xueliang saw a glimmer of hope. Some people in the Kuomintang thought that Zhang Xueliang, who had been detained for so long, was in his seventies, and had already lost his ability and power to make waves. Others thought that he should not be given a chance to continue under house arrest.

After Chiang Kai-shek was seriously ill, he had already made plans for his eldest son, Jiang Jingguo, to succeed him smoothly. At the last moment of his life, he asked the coffin not to fall to the ground after his death, and he even told Jiang Jingguo that "the tiger in this cage should not be released".

In Chiang Kai-shek's consciousness, the power in Zhang Xueliang's hands has not completely disappeared. Once it is released, with his influence in the Northeast Army and the whole country, it is bound to be detrimental to the Chiang Dynasty. Jiang Jingguo is both sad and moved, so he can only answer with tears in his eyes.

On April 5th, 1975, Chiang Kai-shek, who was once all-powerful, died. When Song Meiling heard the last words left by her husband, her heart ached, her lungs pierced like an arrow, and her tears could no longer be stopped. Miss Song Jiasan spent half her life on this matter.

What Song Meiling didn't expect was that Chiang Kai-shek refused to forgive Zhang Xueliang until he died, and his original promise to Zhang Xueliang can no longer be fulfilled, leaving her as the first lady feeling embarrassed and mixed feelings like five thunders.

With the guilt of Zhang Xueliang, the hatred of Chiang Kai-shek's reneging, and the pain of his own helplessness, Song Meiling's family was ruined, and the feud and enmity made Song Meiling, a woman in her twilight years, unable to let go.

Chiang Kai-shek's death was unexpected by Zhang Xueliang. Chiang Kai-shek's last words made Zhang Xueliang speechless. In any case, now that he is gone, Zhang Xueliang wrote an elegiac couplet for Chiang Kai-shek, "Caring for Yin, Being as close as flesh and blood".

Zhang Xueliang has been trying to get Chiang Kai-shek's forgiveness. Now Chiang Kai-shek's sudden death has made him have no chance to achieve what he wanted. He is over seventy years old and still can't get his freedom, which makes Zhang Xueliang nervous.

In order to be free, Zhang Xueliang can only hope for Jiang Jingguo again, and through various channels, he has shown to the Jiang family and the outside world that he has lost interest in politics. In chatting with other guests, Zhang Xueliang repeatedly said that he didn't want to be Zhang Xueliang any more, but only wanted to be an ordinary person.

Jiang Jingguo naturally understands Zhang Xueliang's good intentions, and he also understands that Zhang Xueliang can't make any more waves now. However, his commitment to his father's deathbed makes him have to respect his father's choice, and he can only keep Zhang Xueliang imprisoned.

Only five months after Jiang Jingguo took power, Song Meiling left Taiwan Province Province and went to the United States. Because of her disagreement with Jiang Jingguo's political views, it was a big deal for Zhang Xueliang. Song Meiling left Taiwan Province, and his own life and death were in danger.

June 1st, 1990, this day may be just an ordinary day for most people, but it is unusual for 90-year-old Zhang Xueliang. This is his first birthday after he regained his freedom. Zhang Xueliang, who was full of tears, said that he wasted his 90 years, and so many people were ashamed to live for himself. This once-glorious young marshal is now old.

One day in August, 1991, Zhang Xueliang met Song Meiling at the church service in Shilin Kaige Church, Taipei, China. This was the first and last time that they met since Zhang Xueliang regained his freedom. At this time, Zhang Xueliang knew that he had left Song Meiling and entrusted him to Zhang Qun.

No wonder after Chiang Kai-shek's death, Zhang Qun has been running around for his own freedom. It was originally entrusted by Song Meiling. At the beginning, Zhang Xueliang detained Chiang Kai-shek for a simple purpose, just to resist Japan. As long as Chiang Kai-shek agreed to his request, he would send Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing. When he arrived in Nanjing, he would offer Chiang Kai-shek a humble apology. Because of Song Meiling, he had a gold medal for avoiding death.

As a tough northeast man, the 14-year anti-Japanese war in Northeast China without him was actually worse than killing him. Imprisoned, he has the heart to serve the country, but has no power to serve the country, which has become a lifelong regret for him.

In the Xi 'an Incident, rumbled Zhang Xueliang put Chiang Kai-shek under house arrest for 13 days, while Chiang Kai-shek imprisoned him for 54 years. Zhang Xueliang, who is open-minded, thinks that I am responsible for what I do, and I am also responsible for killing my head. I don't care.

Not afraid of death, not loving money, her husband will never be pitied. He is indomitable and aboveboard for more than years. After Zhang Xueliang went to Hawaii to settle down, he said with his old fingers to the location of China, I want to go there. Unfortunately, he was 90 years old when he was free, and he didn't return to the roots until he died.

It's great to sacrifice one's life for righteousness, and it's even more worth remembering to save the nation from peril with freedom. It's the self-sacrifice of Zhang Xueliang and others that brought the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to join forces to resist Japan, which contributed to War of Resistance against Japan's final victory. He is a national hero and a hero through the ages, and his life deserves to be sung, and should be sung.